"I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing."
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"I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing."
"I caught his hand. What do you want me to do?Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. Tomorrow, I need you to die."
"That is a death I will think of often and with great fondness."
"Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man."
"You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space."
"Infantile love follows the principle: I love because I am loved. Mature love follows the principle: I am loved because I love. Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."
"What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love."
"You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love."
"When Booker first started working for her a few years ago and was living in their home, she saw him cower with apprehension every time she snapped a new order or made him redo tasks more than once, twice, or three times. Now, she knew that he understood her ways better, her need for order, cleanliness, and strict attention to details. She felt he was beginning to realize just what this fifty-seven-year-old Yankee schoolteacher expected of her thirteen-year-old house servant and pupil. He began to appreciate the books from which she taught him after his morning chores were completed. She gave him a few to start his own library and found he stored them in old dry goods boxes in his bedroom."
"Fritz Kramer said, I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern."
"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."
"I just don't see why the past has to matter."
"We're not words, Henry, we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose."
"Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of."
"We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens."
"But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it Athena, but anyone could see it looked like her."
"The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night."
"من قال لك أن درب الجنة معبد بالورود؟"
"Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org"
"Mom, how do you know if the guy is the guy?You mean if he’ll be a good husband? She pauses, then says The ticket is for the man to love the woman more than she loves him. Shouldn’t it be equal?Mom cackles. It can never be equal. But what if the woman loves the man more?A life of hell awaits her. As women, the deck is stacked against us because time is our enemy. We age, while men season. And trust me, there are plenty of women out there looking for a man, and they don’t mind staking a claim on somebody else’s husband, no matter how old, creaky, and deaf they are."
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